Mr. Fahd told members of the hospitals Board of Managers that they were notified last week they would be receiving the 2013 Rural Health Care Access Development Program Grant, which brings in $179,370 for the period Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2014.

This is a grant that we get from the Department of Health every single year, Mr. Fahd.

However, he said, this years funding is higher than it has been recently.

Its substantially higher than weve gotten in the years past. Maybe in 2005 we received this amount. Over the years it went down 10, 15, 20,000 every year. Maybe 2013 we might have received about $120,000, so its back up again to a reasonably good number. So were very happy and pleased to get that grant, he said.

The funds can only be used for specific purposes, Mr. Fahd said, such as improving operational efficiencies or developing affiliations with community-based health care providers.

Funds cannot be used for salaries or benefits for personnel providing direct health care, he said.

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